Overview
- Rescuers at the Santa Fe mine said Sunday they had reached sector 48 and still must clear about 150 meters of mud and waste to get to the junction where supervisor Isidro Beltrán is believed to be.
- A Unified Command of federal and state agencies, including Mexico’s civil protection, the Army, the Navy and the CFE, reported fresh plans Monday to push deeper with dewatering and heavy machinery.
- The Sinaloa prosecutor confirmed Sunday that the body recovered Wednesday was 33-year-old Abraham Aguilera of Guanajuato, identified through DNA due to advanced decomposition.
- Two miners were rescued alive earlier in the effort, with José Ángel Cástulo pulled out March 29 and Francisco Zapata found Tuesday and brought out Wednesday before a two-day hospital stay for severe dehydration.
- The March 25 collapse of a tailings dam—an embankment that holds mining slurry—sent thick mud and water into tunnels, which slows progress and has forced a careful, step-by-step search with pumps, loaders and canine teams.